Local health officials said Sunday that the region that includes Sangamon County is "strikingly close" to additional mitigations for bars and restaurants as it combats another wave of COVID-19.Dr. Brian Miller, the president of the Sangamon County Department of Public Health's board of health, said residents of the county responded in May and June to knock the numbers down then and "we need to refocus and do it again.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 6,161 newly confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 Saturday, topping Thursday's then-record mark of 4,942 cases as a surge in the state continued.
There wasn't any particular event or encounter that drew Troy Taylor to the supernatural. "I wish I had a really great origin story, but I don't," Taylor said.
EDWARDSVILLE - Sacred Heart-Griffin High School's Elise Ilsley won her second straight 1-meter diving championship and the Cyclones finished in second place in the team standings at the Edwardsville Girls Swimming and Diving Sectional on Saturday at the Chuck Fruit Center.
ELSAH - Junior Blake Jones of the University of Illinois at Springfield blitzed the field and won the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Cross Country Championship by more than 10 seconds on Saturday.
